Plano Food and Wine Festival
This Saturday, Nov. 2, head out to Legacy West for the Plano Food and Wine Festival to try bites from 27 restaurants (including Uchiko), 30 wineries (be sure to check out Reddy), plus other vendors. This is the seventh year for this event and it keeps growing each year. The event starts at noon on Saturday and you can get tickets online: a food pass is $55, a wine pass is $45. A food and wine pass combo is $80. But, please just get the VIP option for $125; you don't have to explain anything to anyone about why you deserve it. Be sure to vote for the People's Choice Award, which will be announced at 4:15 p.m. Greek Food Festival of Dallas
The Greek Food Festival of Dallas is hosted by Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church and supports the church's outreach, ministries and youth programs. Spanning three days in North Dallas, the festival shines a light on all the goodness of Greek culture. There's dancing and music, arts and crafts, and plenty of food and drink. Our personal favorite part of the festival are the Greek cooking demonstrations that run all weekend; if you've ever wanted to know how to make a perfect baklava, tasty tzatziki or savory spanakopita, there's a session you won't want to miss.Tickets start at just $10, with food and beverages available for sale at the event. Cooking demos and music and dance performances are all included with admission.The festival runs Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, giving you plenty of flexibility to let your Greek flag fly. Opa!
Greek Food Festival of Dallas starts Friday, Nov. 1, at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 13555 Hillcrest Road, Dallas. Tickets are $10, available at greekfestivalofdallas.com.
Chefs for Farmers
In its infancy, Chefs for Farmers was an intimate and modest farm-to-table dinner series. Now in its 13th year, it has grown into one of Dallas’ most epic multiday food and wine festivals. The Main Event will once again take place in Old City Park in Dallas, with local farms, vineyards, suppliers and restaurants joining together to share in culinary greatness. This year's event will benefit a pair of food-centric charities; The Seed Project Foundation is a food donation garden that grows and supplies fresh produce to local nonprofits, churches, and schools to alleviate hunger with healthful, nutrient-dense food, while Giving Tree Acres is an organic farm donating fruits, vegetables and grass-fed proteins to underserved communities and local food pantries.The popularity of Chefs for Farmers continues to grow; VIP tickets for this year's event quickly sold out, but general admission tickets are still available.
Chefs for Farmers' The Main Event is Sunday, Nov. 3, at Old City Park in Dallas. Tickets are $145 and are available at chefsforfarmers.com/dallas-festival/
Chef Tiffany Derry has found the time to start her own food and wine festival, and she's bringing all her chef friends with her.
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Shef Food + Wine Festival
It seems that Tiffany Derry has some free time on her hands, although we're not sure how. The celebrated Dallas chef has two restaurants we adore in Roots Southern Table and Radici Wood Grill, a Roots Chicken Shack outpost in Legacy West, a busy television career plus a hospitality management and development company. Along with a second location of Radici in Grand Prairie's Epic Central development, Derry has also organized the Shef Food + Wine Festival to be held at the new restaurant. Spanning two days, Derry's event promises plenty of food and drink curated from an all-star lineup of her celebrity chef cohorts from across the country, with proceeds from the event going supporting Derry's partnership with the Texas Restaurant Foundation to expand career and growth opportunities for the next generation of hospitality employees.Shef Food + Wine Festival starts Saturday, Nov. 9, at Epic Central in Grand Prairie. Tickets start at $99 and are available at www.sheffoodandwine.com
Meat Fight
Meat Fight may be the one food festival that doesn't take itself too seriously. There are silly trophies. There are costumes. There are hurt feelings (sometimes). There's also a ton of tasty barbecue, and Alice Lassaude's affair has grown from a backyard party to a legit nonprofit that's raised nearly $3 million in the battle against multiple sclerosis. Each year, Meat Fight's main event puts on a zany face and brings together pitmasters and chefs trying to outdo each other in creating the best barbecue imaginable. There are also auction items, games, plenty of drinking and good times, all for a good cause.Meat Fight is Sunday, Nov. 10. www.meatfight.com.
